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[vetran]

Your nationality comes from your parents rather than from where you were born. As an example, I have 2 sisters and a brother. We were all born in different countries yet are all British.

Some countries will allow you take on theier nationality as a result of having been born there but it's by no means automatic.

What happens if your parents acquire nationality? Should their original Nationality be denied when they have acquired a 'better' one? (as I'm guessing happened here).

If I gain Somalian Nationality then have a babies do my Babies become Somalian? Does that mean we can't mention they were once British for fear of causing offence? Do I a tubby white guy have to describe myself as Somalian and deny my English heritage?

Sounds a little ridiculous to me.

anyway as Mich says Chill!

[Mich the Tester]

"African" is not a nationality, it means you were born in Africa. I don't think Mo Farah would complain about that.

Like I said, you can say "Asian" or "Caribbean", why not African?

I don't think the term 'African' is the problem. The problem is a person who's a candidate to govern people in Britain asking an apparently rhetorical question to which he should surely know the answer, and imo in a very suggestive way; after all it isn't difficult to google 'Mo Farah', naturalisation, or any other information about how a person born in Somalia might run for the British team. Wycherley clearly wasn't looking for an explanation, unless he's a cretin, which is I suppose also a reasonable hypothesis.

[petergriffin]

unless he's a cretin

I am sure millions can relate to him.

[Uncle Albert]

What happens if your parents acquire nationality? Should their original Nationality be denied when they have acquired a 'better' one? (as I'm guessing happened here).

If I gain Somalian Nationality then have a babies do my Babies become Somalian? Does that mean we can't mention they were once British for fear of causing offence? Do I a tubby white guy have to describe myself as Somalian and deny my English heritage?

Sounds a little ridiculous to me.

anyway as Mich says Chill!

There's no reason to deny your original nationality and some countries will allow you to hold dual nationality.

If you as a tubby white guy apply for and get Somali nationality, then yes, you should describe yourself as Somali. You can also describe yourself as being of British origin. I don't know Mr Farah, but I'd be very surprised if he had a problem with being described as British of Somali origin.

As for your children, yes, they would get your newly adopted nationality. They might have a chance to apply for British nationality when they were older, but initially they would be Somali.

One of my sisters was born in the Middle East. She's just as European as I am.

Any other way of dealing with nationality would lead to heavily pregnant women desperately trying to travel the world to have their child gain their desired nationality.

[Mich the Tester]

Any other way of dealing with nationality would lead to heavily pregnant women desperately trying to travel the world to have their child gain their desired nationality.

There are many tales of heavily pregnant women crossing the pennines to give birth in/avoid giving birth in Yorkshire.

[Brussels Slumdog]

As you probably know I'm not a UKIP fan, but technically speaking he's African because he was born in Africa. The fact that he is now a British citizen doesn't rule out that he can be a British African.

Why can you say British Asian, British Caribbean and not British African?

I am a British South African born in England . I Feel British but not English and I speak French at home in Belgium. If Mo feels more British than Somalian and feels happy running for Britain then he's British.If Mo was born in Ireland most people would not be questioning his origin but because he has african roots there seems to be a problem for UKIP supporters.

[Scruff]

I am a British South African Russian Dead Sea Pedestrian Spaniard. Makes me eligible for many dodgy passports. Doesn't make me an Eastern Bloc athlete, nor an academic of Levant. I'll settle for a seafaring peasant of African persuasion. Too many non-sequiturs...

[kal]

After the whole Lenny Henry debacle I was already wavering but after seeing their election literature today I've made my mind up, an offensive bunch of lies that the BNP would be reluctant to propagate, think I will give Dave another go (hopefully without those Lib Dem monkeys meddling)...

[minestrone]

Ok, I'll reword.

I dare say he will be a Somalian again when they find evidence of his drug taking.

We are getting warmer.